9/8/25 - VMA Winners, Clean & Dirty Spots In Your House, and Rent-A-Person

Monday 9/8/25

Celebrate:

I'm On Top of it Day

International Literacy Day

National Actors Day

National Ampersand Day (& is a ligature of the letters "e" and "t"—et—which means "and" in Latin)

National Boss/Employee Exchange Day

National Date Nut Bread Day

National Pledge of Allegiance Day

Pardon Day

Star Trek Day - the original series premiered in 1966.

Virgin Mary Day

World Physical Therapy Day

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Weekend Box Office

1. The Conjuring: Last Rites $83.0M

That’s a new opening weekend record for Warner Bros. and New Line’s “Conjuring” universe, supplanting the benchmark held by 2018’s spinoff “The Nun” with $53.8 million. Among other achievements, it’s the best start this year for a horror movie (above May’s “Final Destination: Bloodlines” with $51.6 million) and the third-largest for the genre in box office history beating the two It's.

2. Hamilton 2025 Re-release $10.0M

3. Weapons $5.4M

4. Freakier Friday $3.8M

5. Caught Stealing $3.2M

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For all things VMA from last night go here.

https://www.mtv.com/event/vma

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A new poll looked at the most organized rooms in the average home.  Is #1 on the list the tidiest spot in YOUR place?  Here are the top five . . .

1.  The living room.  45% of Americans claim their living room is "very" organized.  Only 4% said it's a total disaster.

2.  The main bathroom, 44%

3.  The kitchen, 42%

4.  The dining room, 37%

5.  Your bedroom, 33%

Now the other end of the list:  Can you guess what the LEAST organized spot in the average home is?

1.  The garage.  12% said their "garage or shed" is a total mess.

2.  Closets, 9%

3.  The basement, 8%

4.  Other bedrooms, also 8%.  That would include your KID'S bedroom.

5.  Your home office.  6% said it's a disaster.  Lots of clutter on that desk.

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A new kid-friendly WiFi phone called Tin Can is all over social media.  The target market is nostalgic parents who don't want their kid to have a REAL phone yet.

No texting or apps.  It's like an old-school landline with a cord, and works over WiFi.  Only approved people can call it.  And you control outgoing calls too.

The name is a nod to those old tin can phones you'd make with string.  The handset is even curved like a can, with little ridges on it. 

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Japan has a "rent-a-person" industry, which apparently includes "scary people" with "intimidating appearances" to help you "resolve interpersonal disputes."  

They also have normal options, grandmothers, pretend siblings, and things like "muscle" for big moves.

BUT

After recent reports got out about it, people discovered that the company wasn't legally registered, and there wasn't any official contact information.

And last weekend, the company announced, "Due to various circumstances, this service has been ended."

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How cool is this?  A woman from Argentina took a trip to Italy to see the town her father grew up in.  And the Airbnb she rented ended up being the house he was born in.

She didn't realize until she got there.  She brought old family photos with her, and was planning to go search for his old house.  But then she saw it in one of the photos and realized she was already there.

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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The sounds from crunchy foods are comparable to tiny sonic booms, because the food is breaking up at the speed of sound.

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